126 rare and mostly unpublished photos showing Panzers knocked out in the battles for the Normandy hedgerows. Panthers, Tigers, Jagdpanthers and more! Features on the rocket firing 15cm Panzerwerfer 42, s.Pz.Jg.Abt 654, concrete-covered Sturmgeschütz and the recovery of a Panther tank by the Allies. Sourced from Canadian, British and American archives and veterans' collections. Our large landscape format allows the photos to be studied in detail, and our captions are vetted by experts in military vehicle histories.
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"Repairing the Panzers - German Tank Maintenance in World War 2 - Volume 1" is a heavily illustrated study of the maintenance, recovery and repair of German tanks and armored vehicles during World War 2. Most of the 291 photos are heretofore unpublished and most are reproduced full page in landscape format. Includes maps, drawings, charts and tables.
Category: Tanks (Military science)

This book is an illustrated study of the vehicles designed, developed and produced at the M.A.N. plant in Nürnberg during the period 1934-1945. It is most renowned as the birthplace of Germany's Panther tank. Here are crystal clear photos of showing Panther interiors, prototype testing, proving ground trials, assembly lines and damage inflicted by Allied bombers later in the war. The repair, refurbishment and conversion of other armored vehicles is also examined, with much new information being presented here for the first time. Of the 222 photos, most are unpublished. Hard cove, landscape format, with many photos presented full page.
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By 1943, after the catastrophic German defeat at Stalingrad, the Wehmachts panzer armies gradually lost the initiative on the Eastern Front. The tide of the war had turned. Their combined arms technique, which had swept Soviet forces before it during 1941 and 1942, had lost its edge. Thereafter the war on the Eastern Front was dominated by tank-led offensives and, as Robert Forczyk shows, the Red Armys mechanized forces gained the upper hand, delivering a sequence of powerful blows that shattered one German defensive line after another. His incisive study offers fresh insight into how the two most powerful mechanized armies of the Second World War developed their tank tactics and weaponry during this period of growing Soviet dominance. He uses German, Russian and English sources to provide the first comprehensive overview and analysis of armoured warfare from the German and Soviet perspectives. This major study of the greatest tank war in history is compelling reading.
Category: History

Even after the legendary evacuation from Dunkirk in June 1940 there were still large British formations fighting the Germans alongside their French allies. After mounting a vigorous counterattack at Abbeville and then conducting a tough defence along the Somme, the British were forced to conduct a second evacuation from the ports of Le Havre, Cherbourg, Brest and St Nazaire. While France was in its death throes, politicians and soldiers debated what to do – flee to England or North Africa, or to seek an armistice. Case Red captures the drama of the final three weeks of military operations in France in June 1940, and explains the great impact it had on the course of relations between Britain and France during the remainder of the war. It also addresses the military, political and human drama of France's collapse in June 1940, and how the windfall of captured military equipment, fuel and industrial resources enhanced the Third Reich's ability to attack its next foe – the Soviet Union.
Category: History